Assignment Question
Examine how the content of this article can be reported in an empirically-based, scientific manner for Myers and Twenge’s textbook. Include relevant, recent research studies to support the points made in your proposed content for this section.
Content Overview
Many of the self-presentation strategies observed by scholars will seem obvious to experienced Internet users: improving one’s standing by linking to high-status friends; using a screen name like “Batman” or “007” when in reality one is more like Austin Powers; referring to one’s gleaming head as “shaved” not “bald”; listing one’s almost-career as a D.J. or model rather than the one that pays the bills; making calculated decisions about what to list as interests or favourite books.
You are asked by course textbook authors Myers and Twenge to review and update their section titled “How do people manage their self-presentation?” in Chapter 2. Coincidentally, you read this article from the New York Times a while ago and think that the inclusion of information about self-presentation in the cyberworld is relevant to today’s study of social psychology.
Additional notes/guidance/instructions:
- You need to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the relevant concepts/theories with respect to this extract. To explore how knowledge surrounding the topic of self-presentation may be updated based on new empirical results on Internet usage and self-presentation.
- Apart from doing this research, remember to use your own words in your essay to demonstrate an understanding of the subject matter and to avoid plagiarism.
- Analyse how certain theories and research on self-presentation apply to the cyber world. You need to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of psychological theories and research. Develop an argument using the relevant theoretical and empirical evidence to support your discussion.
- There must be citations of relevant theoretical and empirical evidence to support your arguments, with a minimum of 3 references listed accurately in APA format required for this paper.
